| Acronym | Meaning |
| CCCP | Central Committee Of The Communist Party - Cyrillic For SSSR (Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik |
| SERE | Survival |
| IMRL | Individual Material Readiness List |
| UPTN | Universal Personal Telecommunications Number - Upper Peninsula Telehealth Network |
| LW | Lawrencium (obsolete 1963) |
| ERTS | Earth Resources Technology Satellite (became Landsat) |
| VFW | Veterans Of Foreign Wars |
| MN | Manganese |
| AVI | Audio Video Icon |
| TANJ | There Ain't No Justice (used As Expletive In The Ringworld Novels) |